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  • 1. Which state's Supreme Court was the first to accept expert testimony regarding bloodstains?
A) Mississippi
B) California
C) Michigan
D) Ohio
  • 2. Who was the biochemistry and criminalistics professor who testified in the 1966 Sam Sheppard case?
A) Daniel Attinger
B) Paul L. Kirk
C) Sam Sheppard
D) Herbert Leon MacDonell
  • 3. In the Sam Sheppard case, what did the bloodstain evidence allegedly prove?
A) The murderer was left-handed
B) The murderer was right-handed
C) The murder was premeditated
D) The victim was standing
  • 4. Who is credited with promoting the wide use of bloodstain pattern analysis?
A) The National Academy of Sciences
B) Herbert Leon MacDonell
C) Daniel Attinger
D) Paul L. Kirk
  • 5. What is the title of the 1971 book that published MacDonell's research on bloodstains?
A) Criminalistics and Blood Dynamics
B) The Science of Forensic Bloodstains
C) Flight Characteristics and Stain Patterns of Human Blood
D) Principles of Bloodstain Analysis
  • 6. Where did MacDonell conduct his early experiments by slinging his own blood?
A) In a state laboratory in Mississippi
B) At Columbia University
C) In the basement of his house in Corning, New York
D) In a police department facility in California
  • 7. In what year was the first formal bloodstain training course held?
A) 1973
B) 1983
C) 1966
D) 1957
  • 8. How much instruction did many of the newly trained bloodstain analysts often receive?
A) Two years of clinical training
B) As little as 40 hours
C) At least 500 hours
D) A university degree
  • 9. Which organization was founded in 1983 to help develop the field of bloodstain pattern analysis?
A) International Association of Bloodstain Pattern Analysts
B) National Academy of Sciences
C) American Board of Criminalistics
D) Forensic Fluid Dynamics Society
  • 10. What report from 2009 criticized the credentials of bloodstain analysts?
A) The California Supreme Court Review
B) The Forensic International Handbook
C) National Academy of Sciences report
D) The MacDonell Study
  • 11. Who published a 2013 paper arguing that many central hypotheses of bloodstain analysis remain untested?
A) Herbert Leon MacDonell
B) The Sam Sheppard Defense Team
C) Paul L. Kirk
D) Daniel Attinger
  • 12. What theoretical framework did Daniel Attinger propose to improve bloodstain analysis?
A) Criminalistics
B) Biochemistry
C) Statistical profiling
D) Fluid dynamics
  • 13. How have judges generally reacted to the 2009 National Academy of Sciences report?
A) They immediately banned the evidence
B) They have largely ignored it
C) They adopted the report's recommendations
D) They mandated stricter training
  • 14. Which entity funded the research that led to the book 'Flight Characteristics and Stain Patterns of Human Blood'?
A) United States Department of Justice
B) Columbia University
C) International Association of Bloodstain Pattern Analysts
D) California Supreme Court
  • 15. What happened between 1880 and 1957 in courts in Michigan, Mississippi, Ohio, and California regarding bloodstain evidence?
A) They fully accepted it as standard practice
B) They required juries to undergo training
C) They rejected expert testimony for bloodspatter analysis
D) They exclusively used bloodstain analysis for all criminal cases
  • 16. BPA should not be confused with which field?
A) Haemotaphonomy
B) Ballistics
C) Forensic pathology
D) Serology
  • 17. When did the National Academy of Sciences release a report criticizing the scientific nature of BPA?
A) 1958
B) 2021
C) 1995
D) 2009
  • 18. Who published the first modern study of blood stains in 1895?
A) S. James
B) Dr. Eduard Piotrowski
C) LeMoyne Snyder
D) P. Kish
  • 19. What animals were used in the first modern BPA experiments by Dr. Eduard Piotrowski?
A) Dogs
B) Monkeys
C) Rabbits
D) Mice
  • 20. Which book, first published in 1941, briefly mentioned details later expanded upon by BPA experts?
A) The Forensic Handbook
B) The Dragnet Guide to Forensics
C) Bloodstain Analysis Principles
D) Homicide Investigation
  • 21. In what decade did BPA experts start claiming to use biology and physics to reconstruct crime scenes?
A) 1950s
B) 1970s
C) 1890s
D) 1930s
  • 22. Which media source referenced bloodstain pattern analysis in 1952?
A) A scientific journal
B) A Dragnet radio episode
C) A television documentary
D) A New York Times article
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